In December 2014, Young Volunteers Association of our university carried out a charity sale of apples, the peace fruits that Chinese people call them on Christmas Eve, which are provided by Dalian (Ci Li) Lion Federation. The money raised by the charity sale will be given to a child called Wang Hailong, suffered from leukemia. In August 2012, he was diagnosed as having acute lymphoblastic leukemia. During a year and a half, his family has spent more than 300,000 yuan, for his chemotherapy treatment once a week. His parents came from Shandong and are currently working on a construction site in Development Zone of Dalian. The sudden misfortune made his less affluent family even worse. Our students enthusiastically participated in the whole process of sale organized by Young Volunteers Association, from delivering, packing to distributing of apples. Finally a total of 1485 apples were sold and then the money raised amounts to 7425 yuan. In December 28, Young Volunteers Association of our university was invited by Dalian Ocean University to attend the donation ceremony of the charity sale of apples. Wang Hailong’s mother also came to the ceremony. A total of more than 45,000 yuan was raised by eight universities in Dalian, namely Dalian University of Information, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian Maritime University, Dalian Polytechnic, Dalian Jiaotong University, Dalian Medical University, Dalian Institute of Technology, and Dalian Ocean University. Wang Hailong’s mother was moved to tears when volunteers handed the money to her.

Sale of apples for charity.   The volunteers of charity sale are packing the apples. On January 8, Wang Hailong's father sent a banner with “Virtue is Cultivated by the School Spirit so that World was Warmed by Love” written on it, to our university for expressing their thankfulness to the volunteers and the students involved. Founded in 2008, Youth Volunteers Association of Dalian University of Information is attached to the League Committee of our university to provide practical services. There are 1320 registered volunteers in the organization currently. The association has been working on the public service activities inside and outside of the university. In 2008, they have volunteered to help 3000 students from universities in Sichuan after Wenchuan was stricken by the earthquake to resume their classes in Dalian. Volunteers not only annually have provided services to Dalian Entrance Consultation hosted by Dalian University of Information, but they have actively participated in a variety of big events at the university. At same time, they have been also involved in community services, such as assistance to charity classroom, advocacy of environment protection, cleaning of beach dirt, caring about children suffering from infantile autism in Dalian Xingxing Park and other social activities. The organization has been awarded as "Liaoning Advanced Volunteer Service Team", "Dalian City Youth Volunteer Outstanding Organization Award", "Dalian Outstanding Student Association" and other honors.